Sensitive Partridge Pea
Chamaecrista nictitans
Sensitive partridge pea is an annual legume with small yellow flowers and leaflets that fold when touched, a nitrogen-fixer whose extrafloral nectaries feed ants and pollinators and whose foliage hosts sulphur butterflies.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 0.5–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV